It’s unknown if Kevin Thomas Jr. has eaten at a TGI Friday’s or watched ABC’s primetime television programming block, but you could almost hear those words emanating from him as soon as he rolled into Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway on Friday night.

After winning the Friday portion of the Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Sprint Car Smackdown in 2021, 2022 and 2024, the Cullman, Alabama racer added yet another one after leading all 30 laps at the 1/4-mile dirt oval in his Rock Steady Racing/Inferno Armor – Lucas Oil Center – Creative Finishing/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy.

“It’s another Friday night win; I wish I was this good on Saturday,” Thomas Jr. quipped. “This is great for these guys, bouncing back from last night where weren’t the best, but not the worst, then coming out tonight with a lights out racecar.”

Thomas carved out a not-too-shabby 13th to sixth run in Thursday’s Smackdown opener but is certainly more at home in victory lane where he’s now notched four USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature victories on the 2025 season.

His 48th and latest series triumph was yet another milestone in his career as he surpassed Tracy Hines for sole possession of fifth on the all-time series win list.

It’s his sixth career Smackdown main event victory (second all-time behind Justin Grant’s nine), which now includes five prelim scores and one championship back in 2016. Furthermore, KTJ’s seventh career USAC National Sprint Car win at Kokomo ranks fourth all-time behind only Justin Grant (11), Dave Darland (9) and Tony Elliott (8).

Results Kokomo Sprint Car Smackdown Friday Feature

1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1)

 2. Kyle Cummins (2)

3. Justin Grant (5)

4. Cale Coons (4)

5. Jake Swanson (7)

6. C.J. Leary (8)

7. Kale Drake (10)

 8. Mitchel Moles (6)

9. Logan Seavey (13)

10. Gunnar Setser (12)

11. Chase Stockon (14)

12. Ricky Lewis (16)

 13. Carson Garrett (11)

14. Hayden Reinbold (19)

15. Shane Cottle (23)

 16. Harley Burns (15)

17. Chance Crum (22)

 18. Chelby Hinton (17)

19. Briggs Danner (3)

20. Rylan Gray (20)

21. Kyle Shipley (18)

22. Matt Westfall (24)

23. Joey Amantea (25-P)

24. Kobe Simpson (26-P)

25. Clinton Boyles (9)

26. Geoff Ensign (21). NT